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Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - Panopticon - 03-18-2007
Amazon often makes me chuckle. The review of a FireWire400 model, by 'Electronics Junkie' (a Windows user). who bought a USB model! Priceless.
"quite" and "returning the drive" ? Is a reformat that difficult in Windows?
Looks like a great drive but came with VIRUS,
November 17, 2005
Reviewer: Electronics Junkie (Memphis, TN)
I must say that my initial impression was very favorable for this drive. Small, quite {sic}, and easily powered by my laptop using only power from the USB port.
My initial satisfaction was quickly erased when I opened Windows Explorer ... Needless to say, I am returning the drive.
EDIT: removed the ref. to 'Combo' as it's not offered as such, DOH!
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - nwyaker - 03-18-2007
Great find ! I'm in for two. The specs at SmartDisk say the case is magnesium, drive speed 5400 RPM, two FW ports, bus powered.
http://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/fireliteporthdd.asp
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - mattkime - 03-18-2007
I just picked up five of them. Anyone know what drives are in these? Hm, docs say 5400rpm. I might upgrade a couple of laptop hard drives with these. Should be a speed boost over the 20GB drive in my ibooks.
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - TheTominator - 03-18-2007
Thanks.
I just ordered two.
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - space-time - 03-18-2007
like I said, I got 2, but now I think I should have gotten more...
on the other hand, it could be a typo, so I'll stick with 2 for now
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - nwyaker - 03-18-2007
Remember the SmallDog iBooks ? If they cancel, what lost ?
Once this gets on FW , the eBayers will pounce.
They are on Amazon for about $ 30 also.
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - macphanatic - 03-18-2007
Anyway to power them from a laptop that has a 4 pin firewire port? I'm thinking about one for my work laptop, but don't want to lug a power adapter brick.
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - Mike Sellers - 03-18-2007
Price jumped to 59.02 while I was ordering. Damn!!
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - clay - 03-18-2007
price through checkout was the lower price, now when I check my order status, it lists the higher price. hmmm. time to get in touch with customer service.
Re: Flaming hot: 80 gig portable firewire drive $28 shipped - comaplate - 03-18-2007
probably was a typo, now listed as $59.02